My supplier has something called kevlar honeycomb, as far as I know it is made out of kevlar paper(?) pre-impregnated with phenol resin. It is realyyyy expensive 70euro exl.vat for 2mm x 2550mmx1250mm and 48kg/m^2, he claims that it is the lightest sandwich in the world. I don't have money to buy it, but when I have some $ I will make some reviev of that, this is how it looks like :

Both Nomex and Kevlar are DuPont registered trademarks for slightly different versions of "Para-Aramide" fibres.

In some instances the manufacturers of the honeycomb call it "Kevlar-Honeycomb" in other "Nomex-Honeycomb" but they are basically all made from sheets of "aramide fiber paper"

 --- relatively short, randomly oriented fibres in some kind of phenolic resin binding agent.

So... yes... they're basically the same thing...

Aramide fibres are fire-proof ... hence the use of "Nomex" in fire-retardant racing clothing or gloves.


My testing setup was very simple ... (sorry never took any pictures, can't think why though)

I put the cored panel sample on a large piece of ground flat stainless steel, on the floor... then I
put a short piece cut of off round titanium bar (it was what was there at the right size  ) 7 mm in diameter on top of the sample, then another smaller piece of flat stainless. then added four pieces of soft foam rubber around for balancing and stepped up on the top stainless steel flat... That's rather close to 75 kg on that ~1 sq cm Ti bar...   

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